Official LIVE from the Stand Thread, 2019

cls74 · Nov 12, 2019

Well, next hunt I will venture into uncharted territory, figuratively and literally.

Today marks the latest date of a bow kill buck for me, aside from my first ever deer on the 16th with shotgun.

VS marked up a few potential areas on the property I hunt, so I'll probably hunt a known stand in the morning and then still hunt my way back late morning. Hopefully can find an entry route that I can navigate in the dark fairly easily for the following days.

11/12/13 whining gears buck. Think I shot him 2:30 in the afternoon. And of course it happened right here in LFTS, 15 minutes after my 3rd or 4th stand switch.

tdk5525 · Nov 12, 2019

S.McArthur said: ↑

I have sad news to report...yesterday, I climbed down and started making my rounds changing cards in cameras. As I'm driving up the road next to the field I hunt, I see a couple deer up top. I park and sneak using the wind to cover my sound...12 pack in now 50 yards from me, wind in my favor. He starts moving a little unaware I'm there, and I sneak in a little closer, he has his butt to me, no shot...finally he starts sniffing a licking branch broadside...I hit him arrow goes right through like it never hit anything, not a lot of sound, just right through, I saw fur come off him...I hit him high.
No arrow...no blood. I walked for 3.5 hours with another guy grid searching and found nothing.
I don't believe in the "void" but I believe there may be a no-go zone. I really hope hes still alive, I moved some cameras to see if he is still around. I'm at a loss, I had him dead to rights.
See picture and tell me what you think.
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I don't think you hit anything vital. Hopefully that makes you feel a little better. Next time you get a chance, KEEL HIM!

FEB · Nov 12, 2019

pastorjim08 said: ↑

Personally I think if he offered, you should do it. He wants you to get a deer as much as you do. And I'm sure it would make him very happy if you came up successful in his spot. Do it!

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I concur with my colleagues, get out there Joe!
If there’s a bunch of scrapes, it’s probably more than one buck. Kill one and split the meat with him!

tdk5525 · Nov 12, 2019

virginiashadow said: ↑

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it ina stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the
bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should notbe difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.
The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well
back. They were not having any of it.
After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I
picked out.. ..a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw.. My rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so
I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little
tension on the rope and then received an education.
The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may
just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.
The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer
is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was
no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me
a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing,
and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where
I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to
recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility
for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could
get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million
years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably
to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning
that claim by now), tricked it.
While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal
-- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards
the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you
can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such
trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.
The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will
hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does
not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger
has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring
a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.
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If this is true, it's one of the craziest stories I've ever heard.

I highly encourage you to try it again...but this time, get it on film! I would go to ground laughing...

Swamp Stalker · Nov 12, 2019

FEB said: ↑

I concur with my colleagues, get out there Joe!
If there’s a bunch of scrapes, it’s probably more than one buck. Kill one and split the meat with him!
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pastorjim08 said: ↑

Personally I think if he offered, you should do it. He wants you to get a deer as much as you do. And I'm sure it would make him very happy if you came up successful in his spot. Do it!

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cls74 said: ↑

I agree, hunt it and try to learn something new about it to apply in the future.

It's your dad man, he's wanting you to get a deer as much, or even more than you are wanting him to get one, or even yourself.
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Between2Bluffs said: ↑

Dude, just hunt his spot if he wants you to. You already have earned several times over.
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Thanks for the words guys, it means a lot. Some very good points made.....

Whackemnstackem · Nov 12, 2019

virginiashadow said: ↑

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it ina stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the
bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should notbe difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.
The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well
back. They were not having any of it.
After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I
picked out.. ..a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw.. My rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so
I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little
tension on the rope and then received an education.
The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may
just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.
The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer
is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was
no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me
a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing,
and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where
I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to
recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility
for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could
get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million
years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably
to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning
that claim by now), tricked it.
While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal
-- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards
the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you
can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such
trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.
The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will
hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does
not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger
has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring
a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.
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There should be a warning on this DO NOT read in a room full of co-workers, I had to explain to my boss that I don't read LFTS every moment that I have free time. I know he didn't believe me, and my co-workers are all laughing at me. I had tears streaming down my face I was laughing so hard.

Holt · Nov 12, 2019

I'm working today, but all morning I have been watching a buck and doe locked down right out the back window from the house I'm working at. Out back past property is a large cut corn field. Have seen a few deer moving thru it in the last hour.

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Holt · Nov 12, 2019

Had to take a pic thru my binos, but the buck bedded right in middle of corn field watching his doe!

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early in · Nov 12, 2019

Well, I wasn't going to hunt today because it was so windy with rain earlier, but the rain turned to light snow and the wind dropped off a lot! I'm going in til dark. That buck is out there!!

jrk_indle84 · Nov 12, 2019

Well this morning was a bust, just simply didn't wake up. I'm getting bite to eat and gonna head out tho for some midday action. Goin to sit in that new spot. So here's hoping they're bedded down in there again. I'm gonna get in across the field so if they're anywhere in there hunkered down they won't see me walking in. Should be there and set up around noon or 1230.

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virginiashadow · Nov 12, 2019

Holt said: ↑

Had to take a pic thru my binos, but the buck bedded right in middle of corn field watching his doe!

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Offer the homeowner a $50 discount if you can perform a quick stalk hunt....

Holt · Nov 12, 2019

virginiashadow said: ↑

Offer the homeowner a $50 discount if you can perform a quick stalk hunt....
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Haha, well I do have my bow in my truck!

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virginiashadow · Nov 12, 2019

Holt said: ↑

Haha, well I do have my bow in my truck!

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Tell em you need meat for the family (true) and that you will give them a discount. KILL

cantexian · Nov 12, 2019

Swamp Stalker said: ↑

So I got all my cold-weather gear packed for tomorrow, strapped to my summit viper. It looks like I’m going to climb Mount Everest!!
Lows around 10 degrees, high of 26, with a 15 mph wind. A few inches of snow on the ground.

i’ll be wearing base layer of thermals, top and bottom, my Whitetail mountain hunter bibs, heated vest, fleece jacket, and the arctic shield body suit over all of that. Everything is strategically packed, I did two test run-throughs.

I don’t plan on moving spots once I get set up tomorrow. So I’m just trying to figure out what would be the best spot with the given conditions.

my dad won’t be going out, too damn cold he said. Which I agree I really don’t want him out in those conditions. So of course he wants me to hunt his spot, he’s found a few massive scrapes and several large rubs. I told him no way that’s your buck. He said he treats hunting like how he treats fishing, it’s a team sport....

I told him I appreciate it, but no offense, I want to do it my way and earn it.
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When my boys are old enough to hunt on their own, if I had a spot with that much sign and couldn't hunt it myself, I would want one of them in there rather someone else finding it.

Slugger · Nov 12, 2019

Scrapes are still pretty active. Setup 2 cams nearby

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virginiashadow · Nov 12, 2019

Its snowing in central VA on Nov 12. Nuts.

sgcableguy · Nov 12, 2019

I had to work this morning, and had to convert truck from play truck to work truck for a long day tomorrow, and if I get enough done, I can convert back to play truck for the remainder of the week. Missouri firearms starts Saturday, but my area is archery only so hope to be in stand Thursday until I get r done thru Sunday? Good luck all and Joe, I concur with everyone else, you have more than “earned” your stripes! If Pops wants you to hunt his spot, do it!!!!

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Ridgerunner3 · Nov 12, 2019

The LFTS crew to Joe this morning...

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oldnotdead · Nov 12, 2019

OK,
better to be half right than totally wrong....I suppose.
I said the snow would bring the girls out in day light...though I said the heavy storm would hunker them down....hhhmmm 8:11 this morning infront of the stand I'd planned on going..her and two others plus a spike and 3 point...Now I just finished shoveling half a 300 foot drive by hand and the end of drive across the street and the mail run...not bad for an old lady....shoot me now....lol
p.s...Christmas snow my....---

Swamp Stalker · Nov 12, 2019

The burger = pop's buck....

Farva=Me making my decision about hunting pop's buck.......

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